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L. WEINSTHN.

LACE TIPPING TOOL.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 19. 1918.

Patented July 1, 1919.

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L. WEINSTEIN.

LACE TIPPING TOOL.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 19. 1918.

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LEON WEINSTEIN, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSQURI.

LACE-TIPPING TOOL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 1, 1919.

Application filed .1 uly 19, 1918. Serial No. 245,741.

To all who) ital-{1y concern:

Be it known that I. LEON Wmnsrnm, a subject of the King of Roumania, residing at the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in liace 'lipping Tools, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

This invention relates to a certain new and useful improvement in lace-tipplng tools.

The principal object of my present invention is to provide a tool of simple and inexpensive construction which may be easily and conveniently manually operated for cutting shoe-laces and for attaching metal-tips thereto, the tool being especially designed for use in retail shoe-stores, shoe repairshops, and the like.

With the above and other objects in view, my invention resides in certain novel features of form, construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, all as will hereinafter he described and afterward pointed out in the claims.

lfn the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 is a side elevational view of a lace-tipping tool embodying my invention, the dies of the tool being set for a tipping operation 7 Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1. with portions of the operating levers or handles broken away, the dies of the tool being set for an eyeleting operation;

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional View through the tool on approximately the me dian line thereof, the dies of the tool being set as in Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view through the tool on approximately the line 4%, Fig. 1;

Fig. 5 is a similar view through the tool taken approximately on the line 55, Fig. 1;

Fig. 6 is a fragmental side elevational view of the tool equipped or provided with slightly modified forms of tipping dies;

Fig. 7 is an enlarged front elevational view of the tool shown in Fig. 6;

Fig. 8 is a side elevational View, partly broken away and in longitudinal section, of a somewhat modified form of tool embodyin my invention; I

ig. 9 is a plan view of the tool shown in tag. 8;}

Fig. 10 is an enlarged transverse sectional view through the tool shown in Fig. 8, taken approximately on the line 10-40, Fig. 8;

Fig. 11 is an enlarged perspective view of a section or end of a lace-string tipped by the tool shown in Figs. 1 to 5, both inclusive, oroy the tool shown in Figs. 8, 9, and 10; an

Fig. 12 is a similar view of a section or end of a lace-string tipped by the tool shown in Figs. 6 and 7 Referring more particularly to the said drawings, in which like reference characters refer to like parts throughout the several views, 1 and 2 indicate, respectively, the cooperating handles or jaw-operating levers of the tool. Handles or levers 1 and 2, which are approximately U-shaped in cross section at their forward end, are lengthwise forwardly extended at their side flanges only to provide forked cooperating j aw-engaging extensions 3 and 4, respectively, handles 1 and 2 and their said extensions 3 and 4 being hingedly or pivotally fastened together, as by a cross rivet 5.

Fitting between, and approximately midway its length pivotally fastened, as by a cross-rivet 6, t0, the extension-members 4 of socalled lower handle 2, is the so-called upper jaw 7 of the tool; and similarly fitting between and pivotally fastened to the extensionmembers of so-called upper handle 1. is the so-called lower jaw 8 of the tool. The jaws 7 and 8 are preferably in the form of elongated blocks or bars each slotted or bifurcated at its rear end to slidablyengage with cross-pins 9 fixed in the handles or levers 1 and 2, as seen especially in Fig. 3. Due to the engagement of the jaws 7 and 8 with the fixed pins 9, it will be evident that the jaws 7 and 8, on the closing and opening movements of handles 1 and 2 will be held from turning on their pivots and caused to move in a straight line parallel with each other. Having one end attached to the rear end of one jaw. as, for instance, upper jaw 7, and its other end to the under side of handle 1. is a coiled spring 10 adapted to yieldingly hold or maintain handles 1 and 2 and their carried jaws 7 and 8 in normally spread apartor spaced relation.

In order to adapt the tool to perform more than one function and thereby obviate the requirement of a plurality of tools, I secure to the jaws 7 and a the meeting cutter blades ll. in the arrangenu-nt. best shown in Figs. 2. and 3, whose function is to cut such lacing-st rings as may be too long for a. specific use or to cut a clean end on a lacing that may have become t'rayed or ragged. pre mratory to tipping or re-tip ping.

12l3 indicate opposed die-members, which are disposed upon the inner faces of the jaws 7 and 8, respectively, and which are secured to the jaws by screws or the like 14 in a manner to be capable of end for end reversal relatively to the jaws, for purposes hereinafter appearing, (.tlglt jaw being provided with means, such as'tlie spring-pressed pins 15 adapted to yieldingly project into recesses or notches 16 in the die-members, for locking the die-members in rota-rily adjusted position.

Lower die-member 13 is longitudinally formed on its upper face with a pair of spaced parallel walls 17 having a length substantially equal to the length of the usual lace-tip. the base or bottom of the channel between the walls 17 being rounded, as at 18, as seen particularly in Fig. 4. Near one end, the die-member 13 is provided or formed with an eyeleting-member comprising a bore 19 having a counter-sink 20, a bead 21 surrounding the counter-sink upon the face of the die-member, as seen especially in Fig. 3.

Upper die-member 12 is formed or provided with a longitudinal block 22 adapted to cooperate with, and fit the channel between the walls 17 when the jaws are brought together, block 22 being rounded at its lower edge, as at 22, in a direction opposed to the curvature of the base or" channel 18. Secured, as by screws 23, longitudinally in the block 22, is a blade 24 having points or prongs 25 projecting into the channel 22 of the lower edge of block 22, as seen in Figs. 3 and 4. Near one end, the diemember 12, for cooperation with the eyeleting-member of die-member 13, is provided with a stub 26 having an annular groove 27 therearound at its base, stub 26 and groove 27 being adapted, respectively, to fit the bore 19 and bead 21 of die-member 13 when the jaws and their carried die-members are brought together.

In operation. the die-members 12 and 13 are selectively reversed end for end relatively to their carrying jaws to perform either an eyeleting or a lace-tipping operation, the die-members being in the position illustrated in Fig. 1 for a lace-tipping operation and in the position illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3 for an eyeleting operation. When in the latter position. the tool may be conveniently employed to secure eyelets or hollow rivets. such as the one shown at 28, Fig. 3, in a shoe-upper or the like. In a lacetip'ping operation,- the die members being in lace-string.

the position shown in Fig. l, the lace is preterably lir l trimmed by cutter-b|adcs H to provide a square or clean end. tip. consisting of a section of relatively thin sheet metal. is then placed over the trimmed end of the lam-string and bent manually into partly clenched position upon the, lace.- string. The lace and tip are then inserted or placed lengthwi e into the channel of the female-die-member 13, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 4, and the jaws 7 and 8 brought together through an operation of their handles 1 and 2, block with its blade 24 hel g thereby carried forcibly into channel 18 and the tip thereby tightly clenched upon the At the same time. the bladeprongs form imlentations, as at 29, in the tip, which indentations engage the lacestring to more securely hold the tip from movement lengtlnvise of the lacestring.

The tool shown in Figs. (3 and 7 is sill)- stantially identical with the tool just de scribed and shown in Figs. 1 to 5. both inclusive. In this form of my tool, however. the jaws 7' and 8 are somewhat elongated to HCCOII'HI'IOClfltQ die-members 12' and 13', respectively, having secured thereto cooperating tinting-dies 3030, whereby the tips may be contracted at their inner ends to minimize shoulders at said ends and thereby render the tips more easily capable of being retracted, as in unlacing, through a laceperforation or eyelet.

In the tool shown in Figs. 8, 9, and 10. the jaws 7" and 3" are of reduced length and are provided integrally with the diemembers, which are dis osed in fixed relation substantially at rig 1t angles to the operating-levers or handles 1"2" of the tool. In this tool, also, the female-die 31 is formed with a rounded portion or channel 32 having a single wall 33 rising therefrom, instead of the spaced walls 17 of the preferred form of tool illustrated in Figs. 1 to both inclusive. the upper or so-called male-die 3 1 having walls 35-36 adapted to cooperate with walls 3733 of the female-die in securing the tip upon the lace-string. This modified form of tool is preferably provided with a die-guide in the form of a pin 38 fixed in one of the jaws and adapted to slidably fit a bore 39 provided in the other jaw, the tool being equipped with cutter-blades 11" similar to the cutter-blades 11. but. arranged somewhat closer to the die-members, which is made possible by the omission of the eveleting-members and the selective rotative feature of the die-members of the preferred form of tool.

I am aware that changes in the form, construction, arrangement, and combination of the several parts of my new tool may be made and substituted for those herein shown and described without departing from the nature and principle of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A manually usable clenching tool of the kind described comprising, in combination, a pair of cooperating opposed jaws, a die member mounted upon one of the jaws. said die-member being provided longitudinally with a channel convexedly rounded at its base and adapted to receive a lace-string-end and a tip partly clenched thereupon, a second die-men'iber mounted upon the other jaw for cooperation With the first die-member t0 tightly clench and indent the tip upon the lace-string end, and lever-handles for actuating the jaws and their carried diemembers, said second die-memberincluding a block adapted to fit within, and provided longitudinally on its lower face with a channcl oppositely disposed to, the channel of the first die-member, the block being also longitudinally provided with a slot opening into its said channel, and a blade provided along one edge with a series of indenting-teeth, the blade being disposed in said slot and fixed rigidly to the block' with its said teeth projecting into the said channel of the block.

In a tool of the kind described, a pair of cooperating opposed jaws, a tip-clenching die-member mounted upon one of the jaws, said die-member having a channel adapted to receive a lace-string-end and a tip partly clenched thereupon, a second tipclenching die-member mounted upon the other jaw and adapted to cooperate with the first die-member and its said channel to tightly clench the tip upon the lace-stringend, cooperating men'ibers carried by said jaws for fluting a portion of the length of the tip as the tip is clenched upon the lacestring end, and means for actuating the jaws and their carried clenching and fiuting tipanembers.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

LEON WEINSTEIN. 

